Euro Super League: Spanish Open
Week one, so eager - we're off to la Liga
Reigning Champion - FC Bomhonk
Final Standings
| Pos | Player | Total Points | Total GD | Total SS | GW3 Points | GW3 GD | GW3 SS | GW2 Points | GW2 GD | GW2 SS | GW1 Points | GW1 GD | GW1 SS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fc bomhonk | 28 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -1 | 1 | |||
| 2 | guardiola's giants | 27 | 9 | 13 | 6 | -1 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 8 | -1 | 2 | |||
| 3 | the david r | 25 | 5 | 18 | 5 | -3 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 7 | -2 | 4 | |||
| 4 | whitecaribbean a-stars | 23 | 5 | 14 | 7 | -1 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 8 | |||
| 5 | deblassofc | 21 | 4 | 18 | 7 | -1 | 7 | 3 | -1 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 5 | |||
| 6 | absolutely fabregas | 21 | 3 | 9 | 7 | -2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 6 | -3 | 7 | |||
| 7 | cheese fc | 19 | -5 | 18 | 7 | -1 | 6 | 6 | -4 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 7 | |||
| 8 | tightly | 18 | 0 | 18 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 6 | -2 | 6 | |||
| 9 | rock and iraola | 16 | -3 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 6 | 5 | -3 | 8 |
A high quality final round of the Spanish Open, all players getting into the stride of things by week 3. The lowest score was still a very creditable six points.
BUT… crucially, that lowest score was from our league leader, Guardiola’s Giants. Would that give a chance for someone to steal the title?
The main threat throughout, The David R… well, let’s not beat around the bush, they forgot to predict at this vital last moment! They get a default five points, one below the lowest for the week, and not enough to threaten. Surely the title wasn’t going to be won on this underwhelming note?
No…. because one challenger emerged from the morass. With a whopping 11 points, just enough to pip the Giants on the line – FC Bomhonk are your new Spanish Open champions! The trophy was hoisted aloft on Sunday night – a fittingly European affair as the likes of Bayern Munich, Girona and Tottenham (who on earth did nobody else back Tottenham…) were enough to steal a march on the competition and see Bomhonk hit the top as your Euro Super League matadors.
Elsewhere, credit to newcomers Rock and Iraola – a second-best performing 9 points in their first ever week in the tournament. Very tough, coming in in the final week – a fresh tournament may offer plenty of potential for glory.
And we’re in luck – with the Scottish Open already open for business! Back to our original Predictor format, the classic Football Masters Series game. We’ll do a proper launch of that with our reminder email on Thursday, but predictions are open now.
For now, however, thank you for playing tournament one – well done, one and all!
Masters Level Tournament (3 weeks long)
As well as the glory of being our Spanish Open champion, you can win up to 30 ranking points for the fight to be world number one and the race to reach our glittering end-of-season Football Masters Series final.
See everyone’s predictions here
You’ll be able to see what people have guessed by clicking here after 1230 on the Saturday of that weekend’s games.
Before then, you can see a list of who has predicted so far this week. But not, crucially, what they have gone for..
Team
Tournament Updates
| Pos | Player | Total Points | Total GD | Total SS | GW3 Points | GW3 GD | GW3 SS | GW2 Points | GW2 GD | GW2 SS | GW1 Points | GW1 GD | GW1 SS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fc bomhonk | 28 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -1 | 1 | |||
| 2 | guardiola's giants | 27 | 9 | 13 | 6 | -1 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 8 | -1 | 2 | |||
| 3 | the david r | 25 | 5 | 18 | 5 | -3 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 7 | -2 | 4 | |||
| 4 | whitecaribbean a-stars | 23 | 5 | 14 | 7 | -1 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 8 | |||
| 5 | deblassofc | 21 | 4 | 18 | 7 | -1 | 7 | 3 | -1 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 5 | |||
| 6 | absolutely fabregas | 21 | 3 | 9 | 7 | -2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 6 | -3 | 7 | |||
| 7 | cheese fc | 19 | -5 | 18 | 7 | -1 | 6 | 6 | -4 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 7 | |||
| 8 | tightly | 18 | 0 | 18 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 6 | -2 | 6 | |||
| 9 | rock and iraola | 16 | -3 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 6 | 5 | -3 | 8 |
Week 2
Welcome back to the Football Masters Series. Some would call it fortunate timing that we’re holding the Spanish Open in the very week that our hosts became World Cup champions. Was it the excitement of hosting the Euro Super League that propelled them on? We’re far too humble to take the credit..
A lot less humble, though, were the strides made in the league in this second/middle/penultimate week of our opening tournament. Because my God – it was way more than fashionably late to the party for two of our performers.
First up, those Guardiola’s Giants. Our last team to predict, but that wasn’t enough to stop them becoming bona-fide hall of famers, with the highest one-week total on record. Almost a perfect five results out of five – only denied that by Swindon conceding two in their stonker of a game against Wrexham (stonking enough to see Gary Lineker and Rob McElhenney trading ‘blimeys’ online. Crazy times). Savvy enough to pick out a West Ham win against Chelsea, a Villa horsing at Everton.
And savvy enough to hit the front of the table with one week left – DebLasso and the gang fading badly with the lowest score of the round. In fact the main challenger at the top, the David R, were only a solitary goal off taking that hall of fame spot themselves after Ange Postecoglou’s boys only served up a clearly-disappointing 2-0 win over Man Utd. Unforgivable.
Not only is the title race is very much alive and well, it was the second of our latecomers that shook up the top of the table. In this case the returning White Caribbean A-stars – not even predicting last week, but storming the table with a fine 11 points and fourth spot in the standings. With ten points between the best and worst guesses this week, and ten points betwen top and bottom of the overall table… well, clearly it’s still all to play for. And it’s early days, but with every position further up next week’s final table getting you crucial World Ranking Points – you never know, a tournament this close could make the difference for World Number 1 and qualifying for our end of season final.
So, only one week left in your quest for Spanish Open glory. Will you divide that table more than national opinion on the World Cup winning coach? Will you blow it worse than Micah Richards at the theatre of dreams? Will anyone notice how few Spanish games there are in this final round?
We’ll find out soon enough – good luck, one and all!
Week 1
We’re off and running! Week one of tournament one of season one.
More stress than a thoroughly gaslighted Harry Maguire must be feeling. More passionate responses to your first shots than this guy swearing his head off at Saka banging one in this weekend.
We welcome new challenger Tightly to the ranks during what is, frankly, a confusing week of scoring. Very impressive points all round – and yet shock batterings for Aston Villa and a Harry Kane ‘inspired’ Bayern Munich mean there are negative goal differences all over that table.
Except at the top, that is. Where our reigning Masters Series Champions, DebLasso, kick off the first ‘proper’ season as they finished the test one – looking down from atop the leaderboard. Three wins and two draws enough for a two point cushion at the top as we head into the middle week of the Spanish Open.
And while it’s still pretty much wide open, her main rival from last season, Absolutely Fabregas, starts at the foot of the table, five points off the pace. It really is still up for grabs though – no end of testing ties to pick from this week- taking us from Glasgow to Paris to our host city Madrid to, em, Swindon.
Plenty to play for, then. Who’ll be the most bullish of our Madridista matadors?* Who’ll channel their inner Nadal and grind this out like it’s a clay-court five-setter? We’ll know a lot more by the time we finish week two – good luck, one and all!